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Make no mistake: the only reason you are getting the Fable 5 on Max plans is the Chinese competition.

Without it, you would be paying $2,000/month (Sam Altman, circa 2023/24 when he was saying GPT-4 had IQ of 130).

China’s strategy seems to be serving customers’ needs. Yes, it’s winning, as expected.

And when will we stop equating US Economy with 2 companies?

The actual US Economy will only benefit.

As I recall, in 2023/24 OpenAI told US Gov that AGI will be achieved in 2026 and we will use this AGI to “dominate” China. Based on this, US Gov cut off China from all AI hardware. It looks like China got the message and this is the response.

Also, a little competition is good for everybody (especially US consumers), no?

The current system in healthcare hurts consumers. We certainly do not want the same system in AI.

Frontier AI is a business to be “the smartest guy in the room”. It will always be hyper competitive just because of that.

The fate of any individual frontier company is irrelevant. What matters is AI consumers, and broad accessibility of AI to those consumers. If one of the AI “frontiers” bites the dust, the next one will step right in.

US "AI tech giants" are foaming at the mouth about "dangers" ans "safety", about "how US customers can not be trusted with AI", how much everybody should pay them, and how many $Trillions should they make, at US customers' expense.

For each "AI tech giant", there are millions of other US companies that will benefit from broader AI availability. US economy (and US tech economy) != Anthropic + OpenAI.

Makes sense. Thanks!

Does this mean every time you find yourself using lots of “unsafe” Rust blocks, it’s not the right tool for the job? I suspect it’s not that simple, but what are people’s experience?

It begs the conclusion that these 3 are similar Governments in the way they govern.

Running LLM outside of the repo directory (home directory in this case) is a big no-no. Beyond that, this is highly concerning behavior of Grok.

I am ignoring Fable at the moment. It’s on and off available, twice the price and does not seem to be better.

I use Opus 4.8 with OMP/Pi coding agent and Matt Pocock Skills installed. I use professional/polite/questions-based communication pattern with Opus and it seems to work fine for coding. I am always aware that I need to justify my requests so it doesn’t barf.

Of course, I would never use Claude for anything customer-facing. It’s woke to the point of being fanatical.

Bottom line: “California AI” (in Yann LeCun’s terminology) can not be relied upon. It could change at any time, and stop working for your project.

For the future of AI, we need to look elsewhere.

Do I understand this correctly: somebody at MSFT thought it would be a good idea to provide internal LLM with unfettered access to ALL of the GitHub code? “Just like SQL has”?

The difference is that (A) SQL is deterministic and (B) SQL implements internal access control (and how well that works).

Prompts from non-authenticated user should have no access to any private repositories. The real question is: can you trust MSFT GitHub with your code, now that “outsourced” engineers are supporting it?

I am using Opis 4.8 xhigh, in OMP.sh coding agent (full agent built on Pi), with Matt Pocock Skills installed.

I don’t see a particular bump in code quality from Fable 5. In fact, it feels less reliable to me than my current setup. No sure why I am not seeing what everybody else is seeing.

Perhaps OMP/Pi (head and shoulders better than Claude Code) + Matt Pocock Skills already encode all the agentic improvements Fable has?

I really hope that NVIDIA will push as hard as they can towards installed open-weights AI. Whether it's SOTA models on the Enterprise DGX installations, or regular models on people's desktops/laptops, they have every incentive to sell more hardware by doing so. And we benefit from having a non-controlled AI working for our benefit.

I do not think this is actually AI: currently, there is a narrative (gradually dying out) that AI will replace software engineers and you don't need CS/Software Engineering education as a result. It's the "leaders" who listen to this.

Will change back in 12 - 24 months.

By the same logic, you would need to license Google and youtube access. Just because it's interactive, doesn't change the premise. But yes, that exactly the arguments Anthropic and OpenAI will use for the regulatory capture.

I think Oh-My-Pi (OMP.sh) uses images for context compactificaton. OMP is built on top of Pi coding agent.

Interesting. Maybe I am not getting something: it sounds like his cheating accusations cover some kind of an online chess tournament. Why does this even matter? Why would people care that much? Shouldn't they be focused on face-to-face world championships, etc...?

Competitive markets... In Rodney Dangerfield's immortal words: "You must be drinking!" :-)

For those of us who have no idea who this guy is and what he said, what did he do? Did he say something unapproved?

I hope people understand that this is a satire. :-)

That's exactly what a good propaganda is: We are now arguing whether we are better off than exactly 100 yrs ago, instead of focusing on the lack of jobs for recent grads, significantly higher prices than pre-COVID, etc...

When I read articles, in addition to thinking "good information", I now always ask 3 more quesitons: (1) why was it written? (2) who benefits? (3) who paid for it (not necessarily with money)?

That's how good propaganda reads. You have to be both subtle and partially true.

Who in the right mind would support Larry Ellison getting a tax break?

As Kevin O'Leary said to the interviewer recently, when asked why he is getting subsidized by the tax payers: "You don't understand how free markets work..."

You can't make this up.

Is this some sort of a paid advertising piece, to make you feel better about inflation, lack of affordable medical care, lack of affordable housing, lack of jobs for recent graduates, etc...?

"Life is much better in 2026. We live healthier, richer, and longer lives, with better medicine and more self-determination." - I can't speak for 1926, but compared to 1980s or 1960s, this is so patently not true. The US population is much sicker and more obese, as one example. People are not starving, but at the cost of eating "manufactured" foods that will make them sick in 20 - 40 yrs. And so on. I don't see a lot of happy faces on the streets of America.

So is this a part of the "first hit is free" campaign? If it won't be available on subscription past July 7, what is the point of using it for 7 days now? Shouldn't our energy be better spent elsewhere?

It does not seem to cover the Neural Accelerators, Apple's equivalent of the Tensor Cores. They only got released on M5 platform. This is probably the most important part to cover.

"Age verification" is designed to attribute your identity to your online presence. As such, it's done just right.

If only the "cybersecurity" crowd were focused on patching the vulnerabilities.

Instead of shilling for the LLM providers.

What are the use cases? I am curious why Rust was not targeted.